Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 3212, Samuel Eaton, N.H.

SERVICE
NUMBER
N. 16.
Eaton, Samuel
R. 3212.
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Declaration of Samuel Eaton
State of Vermont, District of Windsor ss.
On the Sixth day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty two personally appeared in open Court, before the Probate Court for and within the District of Windsor and State of Vermont now sitting Samuel Eaton a resident of Reading in the County of Windsor and State of Vermont, aged Seventy three years the fifth day of July last past, who being first duly sworn, according to Law, doth on his oath, make the following Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the Act passed by Congress June 7. 1832, that he entered the service of the United States under the following Named Officers, and served as herein State stated.
That he was born in the year 1759 and enlisted in Goffstown in the County of Hillsboro. and State of New Hampshire, under Capt Davis for eight months, Marched from Goffstown to Portsmouth, from thence to Fort Hancock was there Six or seven months; while there, was employed in repairing the Fort, &c. — in June 1777 Marched for Bennington under Capt Joshua Martin and marched as far as Washington New Hampshire and there received orders, that we were not wanted, and returned home, was absent about ten days, a few days after arriving home at Goffstown. Sergeant was warned to a Training

And was there drafted, and immediately marched to Charleston (No. 4) stayed there about one week from there marched to Manassas Vt under command of Capt McConnell stopped there about one week and then spared for Pinnington, arrived there on Sunday, and on Monday was called out on a Scout under Colonel Graigue or Gregg, Marched to Panchar Mills, N York, under Miles from Pinnington, and there made a Stand, and took up the Bridge to prevent the Enemy from crossing, but the project failed, and and we then retreated back to Pinnington, when we met General Stark with the main Army, and there made a Stand for a few days, in which time we erected a Fort, and on Saturday the sixteenth day of August the whole Army divided into three parts, Marched to the Enemy lines, and gave them Battle, and after the Battle Thirty of our regiment were ordered as a guard to go to Albany to take charge of the Stores &c. which we had taken from the Enemy; I was one of the said Guard. We returned soon to Pinnington, and thence marched to Stillwater N. York, and stayed there about three weeks on Guard was then discharged, and returned home to Goffstown. Said Colonel lived in Goffstown about fifty years and in 1817 moved to Reading Windsor County Vermont, which place he now lives in. He never received any written Discharge. —

The De. clarant further States, that he recd. eight dollars on M th M th M th at Goffstown which is all he was did receive — Eight £ Sixteen Shilling does, as now stands on the pay roll. He has no documentary evidence, except the Plunder Roll, hereunto annexed. He was engaged in Bennington Battle. He knew Col o Stickney, and was under his command in Bennington Battle.
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to to a Pension or annuity, except the present, and declares, that his name is not on the Pension Roll of the agency of any State. He was born in Haverhill in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, on the fifth day of July, 1759 — My father moved from Haverhill aforesaid to said Goffstown, when I was about three years of age, and there is a record of my age in said town of Goffstown. I was living at said Goff- town, when called into service.
Sworn to, and subscribed, the Samuel Eaton day and year aforesaid.
Jabez Proctor Judge
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion, that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier and serv- ed as he states.
Jabez Proctor Judge
I Reuben Washburn, Register of the Probate Court within and for the District of Windsor in the State of Ver- mont, do hereby certify, that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Samuel Eaton for a Pension.
In Testimony, whereof I have hereunto

set my hand, and affixed the seal of said Court, this sixth day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty two. William Washburn.
N o 5780 Samuel Eaton Vt
P. V.
27. Aug t 1832
Rolls 2 mo 8 d. M c Connell
enlis d 19 July 1777
disch d 26 Sept 1777
2 mo 8 days
Rolls. M c Connell.
enlis d 19 July 77.
disch d 26 Sept 77.
2 mo. 8 days

State of Vermont ) On the twenty first day of November District of Windsor ss ) in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty four personally appeared in open court before the Probate Court within and for the District of Windsor in the State of Vermont, now sitting, Samuel Edson a resident of Reading in the County of Windsor and State of Vermont, aged seventy five years the fifth day of July now last past, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the following supplementary declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of congress passed June 7 th 1832
That by reason of age and the consequent loss of memory, he cannot he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his services, but according to his best recollection, he served not less than the periods mentioned below, and in the grade of a private. 1 st For a period of not less than six months, I served as a private in the state troops of New Hampshire between the 1 st of March and the 1 st of November 1776 inclusive; having enlisted for eight months and having been discharged before the expiration of my term. In this service I was enlisted at Goffstown N.H. according to the best of my present recollection by Lieut. James Coffrin. served in Capt. Davis' Company, Orderly Sargeant, Wakefield. Col. Gillman's Regt passed muster at said Goffstown, but cannot recollect the name of the Muster master. Marched from Goffstown through Derryfield (now Manchester) Chester, Nash, Kingston & Exeter where we staid the second night of our march at Justins' tavern on the bank of Piscataqua river; and from thence we marched to Portsmouth N.H. about 15 or 16 miles where I was stationed during the time of my service under the above enlistment which was as before stated a period not less than six months
2 nd For a period not less than ten days in June 1777. I served as a private under Capt. Joshua Martin, having volunteered at Goffstown aforesaid, to go to P'keepsie N.Y. but on our march was ordered back and dismissed 3 rd I now distinctly remember, that after being discharged at Bennington, Vermont, from Capt. McConnells Company where I had served between two & three months in the summer of 1777, (see original annotation) I immediately and whilst at Bennington volunteered in the same Capt. McConnells company. Lieut. Gillmans Ser t Burns, marched to Bemis Heights near Stillwater N.Y. where I remained until some time after the surrender of General Burgoyne, and returned to Goffstown in November of the same year, having been absent in the service of the United States including my first service in Capt. McConnells

Company not less than four months, and ever since, when speaking of those services I have considered them between four and five months. And for such service I claim a pension. And the said Samuel Eaton further deposeth and saith that he cannot procure the testimony of any person who can testify to his services above stated. Samuel Eaton Sworn to and subscribed the day and year first above written.
Jabez Proctor Judge
We Sewall Fullam, a Clergyman, residing in the town of Reading in the County of Windsor and State of Vermont, and Abel Gilson, Jr., lately residing in Reading aforesaid, and now residing in the town of Cavendish in the County of Windsor aforesaid, hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with Samuel Eaton, who has subscribed and sworn to the above Declaration; that we believe him to be seventy five years of age, and upwards; that he is reputed and believed in the neighbourhood, where he resides, to have been a Soldier of the Revolution, and that we concur in that opinion.
Sworn to, and subscribed, the day and year aforesaid.
Sewall Fullam Abel Gilson Jr.
Jabez Proctor Judge
And the Court do hereby further certify, that it appears to them, that Sewall Fullam, who has signed the preceding Certificate, is a Clergyman, resident in the town of Reading in the County of Windsor and State of Vermont, and that Abel Gilson Jr., who has also signed the same, was lately a resident in Reading aforesaid, and is now a resident in the town of Cavendish in the County of Windsor and State of Vermont, and is a credible person, and, that their statement is entitled to credit.
Jabez Proctor Judge
I, Stephen Washburn Register of the Probate Court within and for the District of Windsor in the State of Vermont, do hereby certify, that the foregoing

contains the supplementary proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Samuel Eaton for a Pension.
In Testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the Seal of the said Court, this twenty first day of November in the year of our L OR D one thousand eight Hundred and thirty four.
Reuben Washburn —

Additional declaration (of Samuel Eaton) in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress passed June 7. 1832;
On the Fifteenth day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty seven, personally appeared before the Probate Court within and for the District of Windsor, in the County of Windsor and State of Vermont, now sitting, Samuel Eaton, a resident of Reading in said County of Windsor, aged Seventy-Eight years on the fifth day of July A. D. 1837 who, being first duly sworn according to law, doth, on his oath, make the following additional declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the Act of Congress passed June 7. 1832;
That in March, or in the first part of April 1776, at Goffstown in the State of New Hampshire, the declarant enlisted, for the term of eight months, into the militia company of Capt. Davis in the Regiment commanded by Col. Gilman . He immediately marched to Portsmouth N. H. under Lieut. James Cochran of said Davis's company, and was stationed at a Fort, which was commenced the year next preceding, on Great Island, so called, in Portsmouth Harbor, and named Fort-Hancock . The declarant's duty, with the rest of said company, was that of repairing or completing said Fort and, also, guarding the Provision Store near the bridge that connected said Island with the main land. He here served, as aforesaid, for not less than six months, according to his best recollection, altho' he is unable to state the precise day which terminated his service at this time. He received his pay, and was dismissed.
Samuel Eaton
Sworn and subscribed in open Court, on this 15 th day of August A.D. 1837.
Before me.
Thomas F. Wm Merrill, Judge of Probate for District of Windsor.

State of Vermont, } I, Salmon F. Dutton, Clerk of the Court of District of Windsor. } Probate for the District of Windsor aforesaid, The same being a Court of Record, do hereby Certify that the foregoing contains the additional proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Samuel Eaton for a Pension. I also certify that Thomas F. Hammond, before whom the foregoing Declaration was shown to and subscribed, is Judge of said Probate Court.
In Testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of the said Probate Court at Windsor, in said District of Windsor, this fifteenth day of August, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred & thirty four.
Salmon F. Dutton -

3312 P. O.
Donald Watson
Service: _____
REJECTED
Enlisted: _____, 18 .
Discharged: _____, 18 .
Application filed: _____, 18 .
Alleges: _____ _____ _____
Re-enlisted: _____ _____ _____
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____ _____ _____
_____ Recognized. _____ Contract.

Sam l Eaton
Vermont
Superannuated
Rejected
Less than 6 mo
  Set to Claimant  4  May '33    " H. Hubbard  25  July 34    " " "  12  Recd. "    " J. F. Hammond  1  June 35    " H. Everett  2  Recd. "       " " "  8  " "    " " "  21  Sept. 1836    " " "  9  Sept. 1837    " " "  5  Dec. 1837    " " "  11  Dec. 1837  
Paper sent to Hon. H. Coeell Feb. 35 for his neck

76- 6 mo at Fort Hancock - Capt Davis 77- 108s. " Capt Joshua Martin " " Capt McConnell
3 mo 8-5 Dec 76 to 12 March 77 Capt Davis - 4 Towns. Gilmans Reef - Sam Eaton

Washington 4 Sept. 1837.
Sir I enclose the additional Schedule of General Enters - respectfully H. Scudder
L. L. Edwards Esq. Genl. of Pensions

Washington 6. Dec. 1887
Sir
In reply to yours of the 5. on the case of Samuel Eaton. — You have, no doubt often found that soldiers give the names of their officers from the recollections of the war, and this I presume to have been the case in the Deposition of Caleb Little (re-rendered). The name of the Lieut. as written is James Cofrin , or Cathrin which may have been Cochran or Nathan, or Cathman — or Coffin, names which are common at the East — The name of the Capt. written Audiorne , is probably intended for Odiorne, which also is a name common in that section of country.
I am respectfully & H. Edwards
J. L. Edwards. 6 m. of A.

Washington 2 d . Dec. 1837.
Sir
Since the rec d of your of the 7. Sept. last - on the application of Samuel Eaton - I have seen Mr. Eaton - He still believes that he served in Capt Davis Co - He thinks the 1 st name was Corkren or Corcoran - & states that the Orderly Sergeant in company was Wakefield - and that Wm. Mc. Dole, Caleb Little and John Smith were privates in the same Company - An examination of the rolls may perhaps lead to the correction of his error as to the name of his Capt -
- I have no doubt of the integrity of Mr. Eaton
I am respectfully
Your obedt Servt
J. Edwards Esq. Lowry P. P.

Windsor V o 7 Sep r 1831
Sir I enclose the application of John Shatton for a pension
On the 21. Sep r . last I wrote you in relation to the application of Samuel Eaton - you answer if rec d is mislaid I will be obliged to you to refer to it
Yours respectfully
your obed t Serv t
Horace D. D. D.
Ed. Edwards Esq. Henry P. D. D.

1300 1500 150 20 25 50 100 75 25
Dear H. Conner -
Mr. F. Hammond Esq. Reading Vermont

Department of War
Pension Office
December 12. 1834
Sir,
Samuel Eaton whose supplemental declaration has been presented to this office, claims to have enlisted for eight months in the State Troops of N.H., in a company commanded by Capt. Davis, and in Col. Gilman's Regt. in the year 1778, and to have been stationed at Portsmouth, N.H., and discharged after six months service.
He also alleges to have served in the year 1777 under Capt. McConnel, which service by the rolls appears to have been a few days over two months.
As no evidence has been produced in support of the first named service, and as no such service has ever come to the knowledge of the Department, the rolls of the N.H. troops being silent on the subject, it is disallowed.
The other service falling short of six months, will exclude him from receiving the benefit of the provisions of the act of January 8, 1832. The papers still remain on file. There will return
Yours Hon. Nathaniel H. R.
I have the honor to be Sir, Respectfully, J. L. Edwards

Washington 21. Aug 1856
Sir
I have examined the papers of General Ewing transmitted to me in Dec. - In your of the 2 d Dec you remark " It is not yet established that without questioning the fact stated by W m Lyon in his Def e . that troops were stationed at Fort Hancock in 1776 it is yet not established that it consisted of six months men enlisted & marched from Goffstown" - W m Ewing states in his declaration that he enlisted for 8 months - in his add d and declaration he states he was discharged before the expiration of his time - I would en shelter grieve this would make his declaration correspond with the A t St records - He also states the names of his officers - I would further ask whether his name is on the rolls under these officers - or whether his name is on any of the rolls of 1776 - & return the papers and am
Very respectfully &c H. E. Ewing
J. L. Ewing & En law. of Pensions
† I also refer to Capt. Little's deposition who narrates the officers who marched & returned from Goffstown & who were stationed at Fort Hancock.

Charlestown July 19-1834
Dear Sir
I was requested when I left home to look into the papers of Samuel Estlin who line at Reading is permanent and who applied for a pension under the act of June 1832 — I wish to learn from you what are the difficulties in his case I understand his papers are on file
Respectfully yours, H. Kennard

Dear H W Everett 11 Feb 1836 A. B.
MS. A. 9. 2. 162

War Dept
Pension Off 36. June
Sir
Agreably to your request I have the honor to return you the papers in the case of Samuel Eaton and in reply to your first enquiry, that the allegation of 8mo enlistment from Goffstown & 6mo service under that enlistment does not impair the objection founded on the records heretofore communicated and to your second enquiry that his name is found on McCornells roll as "entered 19 July 77. discharged 26 Sept 77. but not under the designated officers in '76 - There was a Saml Eaton in Townes's Comp'y Gilmans Regt whose service commenced on Recd. of that year.
JH
Hon Horace Everett H. Rep.

Reading Nov. 23 d 1835. (Vermont.)
Dear Sir,
The enclosed affidavit of Edward Lyon, is intended to be used as corroborating evidence in support of Samuel Eaton's claim for a Pension.
I can cheerfully say, that said Lyon is esteemed to be a man of truth, and he certainly retains his mental faculties remarkably well for a person of his advanced age. Mr. Eaton, the applicant, is very poor and nearly past labour; this, with a thorough conviction of the justness of his claim, will stimulate him to make every honourable exertion within his power, to obtain it.
Accept, Dear Sir, the assurance of my high esteem, and believe me your obedient & very humble
Servant Thomas F. Hamblin.
Hon. Horace Everett
Mem. H. Rep.
Washington, D. C.
P.S. Any communications which you may be pleased to forward me, during the ensuing Session, will be, as they ever have been, received with gratitude. T. F. Hamblin.

Reading, Vermont. May 25 th 1835.
Dear Sir,
Enclosed is the affidavit of Caleb Little of Colebrook, N.H. forwarded as corroborating evidence of the Revolutionary Services of Samuel Eaton, whose application for a Pension, and supplementary Declaration are now with the Department.
Mr. Eaton has always said, that if Caleb Little was living he could attest his services at Fort Hancock, and has once or twice written to him at Colebrook without receiving any reply. This spring Mr. Eaton has made a journey on foot to Colebrook, 140 miles, and obtained from Little this affidavit, which, tho' rather loosely drawn as to duration of service, goes to show that in 1776, a guard was stationed at Fort Hancock, near Portsmouth, and that the Applicant was one of that guard.
Firmly believing that this is a just claim, & that no fraud has ever been, or attempted to be committed by Mr. Eaton, I do hope that the evidence will be favourably received, and that the applicant will yet live to enjoy a portion of his Country's Bounty, to which, I have no doubt, he is justly entitled, and which he so much needs for support in his declining years.
I have the honour to be, Dear Sir, your Obedient and very humble Servant. Thomas F. Hammond,
Hon. J. L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions, Washington City
D. C.

I, Edward Lyon of Plymouth in the County of Windsor and State of Vermont, aged seventy eight years, being duly sworn, do depose, testify & say, that in April, in the year seventeen hundred and seventy six, at Bedford in the county of Hillsborough & state of New Hampshire, I enlisted in the Militia for the term of nine months, in Capt. Clement's Company, Lieut. Fifeild, Ens. Perry, Serjs. Shepherd, Blake, & Stewart, and immediately marched to Greenland where I joined others of the same Company, and passed through Portsmouth N.H. carried at Fort Hancock near Portsmouth, one night, and on the following morning went down the River, Piscataqua, three miles to Newcastle Island, where I was stationed nearly or quite nine months in Col. James Gillman's Regt. Maj. Moony, Surgeon Jackson. There were were two Companies stationed at Newcastle, & I don't know but there might have been three. One Company was commanded by Capt. Brown, Lieut. James Hiken. Newcastle Island was three miles from Portsmouth. During the whole time I was stationed at Newcastle Island, there were troops kept at Kittery on the opposite Side of the River, and also at Fort Hancock. And fur ther I say not.  Reading November 18 th 1835, Edward Lyon
State of Vermont } At Reading in said County on this 18 th Windsor County ss. } day of November 1835, then Edward Lyon of Plymouth in said County, personally appearing, and after being carefully examined & duly cautioned, made solemn oath, that the foregoing deposition, by him subscribed, contains the truth & nothing but the truth.
State of Vermont, Windsor County ss }
Before me, Thomas F. Hammersmith, Justice of Peace
I Benjamin Swan Clerk of Windsor County Court do hereby Certify, that Thomas F. Hammersmith is a Justice of the Peace within y s er said County, duly Commissioned & qualified, and that his Signature above is genuine — In Testimony whereof I here to Affix the Seal of said County Court this nineteenth day of November A D 1835. — Benj. Swan Clerk

I Caleb Little of Coldbrook in the County of Coos and State of New Hampshire of lawful age testify and say, that in the year 1776 I resided in the town of Gapstown, Vermont, then, that Samuel Doton also resided at said Gapstown at the same time, that in the month of April of that year 1776 said Samuel Doton and I did enlist to go to Portsmouth to protect that town as State troops we were marched forthwith under the command of Lieutenant James Cofrin on Boston and when we arrived at Portsmouth we were stationed on the Island at fort Hancock, and quartered at that fort until we were discharged, said fort was commanded during said time by Capt. Audicorn
During the time we were stationed at fort Hancock and at the time we were discharged there were troops on the other side of the River at a place called Kittery.
Caleb Little
State of New Hampshire
Coos ss. May 8th 1835. Then personally appearing Caleb Little signor of the above affidavit and made solemn oath that the above and every part thereof by him signed is true before me.
Simon Davis justice of the Peace
* Odiorne

State of New Hampshire Coos Co. ss. I William Farrar Clerk of the Court of Common for said County of Coos in the State of New Hampshire, certify that Lewis Loonis before whom the within affidavit was taken is a Justice of the Peace within and for said County of Coos, duly qualified to take affidavits and administer oaths; that the signa- ture purporting to be his is genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of the said Court this 9 th day of May in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty five.
Wm Farrar Clerk

Mr. [unclear] [unclear] [unclear] [unclear]
Jane Eaton
Am H. Everett HR

I Elishalet Richards of Goffstown and County Hillsborough and State of New Hampshire, of Lawful age do testify and say that in the year one thou- sand seven hundred and seventy seven I was Mustered into the service of the United States in Goffstown and S d County in the month of July and that I Marched immediately after to Bennington In the State of Vermont in Capt Samuel Mc. Connells Company In Col. Nichols Regiment under General Stark and that I Samuel Eaton of Reading in the County of Windsor and State of Vermont was Mustered into the service with me on the same day and that we Marched in the same Company and were of the same Mass to Bennington And that after the Battle at Bennington we marched with Capt Mc. Connell to Bemis Heights or Still Water In New York and there Remained together till the time of our draught was out -
Elishalet Richards
Hillsborough S d State of New Hampshire on the 15 th day of January A.D. 1831 personally came before me the abovenamed Elishalet Richards and made oath that the above certificate by him subscribed is true
Before me
Chas. F. Gove Justice of the Peace

I Nathan Hawse of Hooksett in the County of Merrimack and state of New-Hampshire of lawful age do testify and say that in the year one thousand seven hundred and seventy seven I was mustered into the service of the United States at Goffstown in the month of July and that I marched immediately after to Bennington in the state of Vermont in Captain Samuel McConnell's Company under General Stark and that Samuel Eaton of Reading in the county of Windsor and state of Vermont was mustered into the service with me on the same day and that we marched in the same company, and were of the same Mess, to Bennington, And that after the Battle at Bennington we marched with Capt. McConnell to Bemis Heights in New-York and there remained together till the time of our draught was out.
State of New-Hampshire } Merrimack ss } Then personally appearing the above named Nathan Hawse and made solemn oath that the foregoing Deposition by him subscribed is true. Before me Thomas R. Daggart Justice Peace